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And most of the money for cleanup comes from taxes. Its a nice roundabout/inefficient way to make citizens pay for the pollution of large interests.

In my opinion its more plausible that pollution has decreased due to citizen awareness and organization rather than the EPA.

Inflation would imply that everything is increasing in cost at about the same rate. Instead we have ballooning costs for a few critical expenses(housing, eductation, healthcare).

"But when you have kids, you jump the line. You just do. If you have the money, would you not spend it for that?"

Unregulated markets do not work for this type of irrational actor. Please stop spreading lies about how to fix this problem. Instead maybe look at countries that regulate it correctly(Spain).

Benjamin Franklin while an unrepentant capitalist, tempered that with protestant values and a sense of civic duty. Allowing money to control how critical social functions work: elections, medicine, education directly undermines them.

Maybe you could pick one of those things from your list and try to find ways to make it better both for the individual and the common good.

a good follow up article if you're interested: https://www.teamupturn.com/reports/2016/what-isps-can-see

Even a tiny bit of data(think DNS name resolution) collected over a long period of time can be pretty invasive to a persons privacy.

I hate to reminisce but having two existentialist philosophers debating about socialism vs communism makes me jelly.

Cool.

no one knows how to better treat human beings than faceless corporations with a fiduciary responsibility to faceless shareholders.

China has already caught up, this is just how they do business.

require all work to be logged in the proper system so that any exceptional productivity will be tempered by time spent updating tickets

There are entire states with lower avg household incomes. 20% below the poverty line is also substantially lower than many rust belt cities (detroit metro: ~39%, flint: ~55%, gary: 48.5%).

Pieces like this are dangerous because they distract us from the often insurmountable challenges many children in america are born into

So yes! I do think its too little, especially in the top 1%. I think some moderately more progressive tax rates would be an improvement.

One of the things that appeals to me about UBI is that it is a dramatic simplification of welfare bureaucracy. I would love to see something similar to the way we calculate taxes. Simplifying and closing tax holes would help extract more taxes from people who should be paying more while not punishing wage earners who have most of their taxes preempted out of their paycheck.